Why, people often thought I'd sung it myself. She sang it to such perfection!

There was another song she sang for me: Yeh galiyan yeh chaubara. Those two songs that she sang for me are remembered even today. I've acted in over 50 films, and she's sung my best songs.

I think it is a privilege for our generation to be exist in the same age as her!

Every time I meet her, I marvel at her calmness, her patience, her perception.

Recently, she recorded a song for my Marathi serial, Athang, composed by Hridayanath Mangeshkar. The chorus wasn't ready, so she had to wait. She wasn't at all upset.

I was getting edgy on her behalf!

The recording over, sent her headphones and other stuff that she required back to the car and came to us. We heard the recording, and Hridayanathji said one line wasn't quite okay. It had to be recorded again.

It was like "Oof!"

I remembered when I was shooting, after pack-up, I would get very upset if someone said I had to reshoot a scene.

I got very upset for Lataji. All she said was, "You think so? Okay."

And she called for her things again. And sang with infinite patience. No attitude or consciousness of her stature.

I'll tell you something. My 11-year-old son Priyank recently had an assigment: to pick three most outstanding personalities of this
millennium.

He picked Indira Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Lata Mangeshkar. He couldn't help boasting that Lataji is his granny.

But he came home, with a woebegone air. He said, "Mummy, no one believes that she's my aaji. We told this to Lataji. She pacified him so sweetly.